LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 262, 29 October 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails for the United Kingdom and rairope despatched from here o.n lriJi September arrived at London on 20ih •X-Lober. The Coriulhiv, which is due in \\ 'l- - from London next week, is bringing 070 passengers, of whom 52S are in the third' class. Amongst other stock to compete at the Palmerston show from Taranaki will be Mr. Joe West's hackney stallion Lord Kitchener; Mr.'James Mitchell's hackney Silver King and clydesdale Empire, and a yearling clydesdale colt and two-year-old clydesdale colt from Mr. F. A. Bremer's Okaiuwa stud.

A meeting in connection with the New Plymouth Harbor Enabling AcC was held at Inglewood on Monday evening, the .Mayor presiding over s»

poor attendance. Messrs. Connott and King explained the features of the Bill, and at the conclusion .of the meeting were, accorded a vote of thanks. The senior 'boys of the New Plymouth High school, in charge of Mr Sandford, instructor in woodwork, were yesterday morning conducted through the Sash anil Door Company's lactor.v and Mr II I'cadle's turning factory. At the former place Mr Tookc look charge of the party, and made the vi-it very interesting anil instructive.

A considerable amount of interest is being taken in the movement to form a mounted l i lie corps in this district, and there is little doubt that the necessary number will be forthcoming to warrant its establishment. Intending members are reminded that the matter is to be decided at the Town Hall this evening, when all interested are requested to be ill 'attendance.

Mr. W. Harris, a dairy farmer of West Dapto (N.S.W.), had a .sensational experience with a bull while feeding his herd recently. While his back was turned the bull charged at him and tossed him between two horses that were drawing a slide containing' green feed. The horses started forward, but ill - . Harris managed to lift the edge and allow it to pass over his body, and then rolled under a fence which was close by. Ilis clothes were torn alul his legs cur, about.

Writing from Kurc Naval Station, ou 3rd September, one of the' .Japanese naval ollicers who visited Wellington in the ill-fated Mjlshushinia, in referring to the disaster, quaintly says: "The single-masted ship Matsiiushiiua, which made her appearance before the city of Wellington and received the greatest heartily welcome of the citizens, is now on the bottom oil' the coast of Formosa, from a sad circumstance'. .1 will not speak more about her, you must have received many messages by telegraph. .... Great and powerful American licet 'will make their appearance in Japan next month. All Japanese people, make their mind what kind of welcome will get their satisfaction. We have only a burning heart for the guests from far distance. . . . The mime Wellington always reminds me of the beauty of that city and the warm heart of my only three friends." A strange parcel is in the London and North-Western Railway goods depot in London 'waiting to be called for." It has been there for several'decades, and inquiries indicate that it is likely to remain there many years Inore, It seems about thirty years ago a stone collin, 12ft long, containing tiie alleged pclriticJ remains ot' a giant, arrived at the Broad street ;;oods depot, having been consigned iroin .Manchester. The "remains'' measured over 12l'l in length, the chest girth being U'/.ft, and the length of arms 4'/J't. ' lit was stored at Broad) [ street for some time, and then proceedings in Chancery were started and a shoiwman named Keisliaw obtained an injunction restraining the railway company from delivering it until the ownership had been satisfactorily arranged. The "giant" many wars ago was hawk'ed about the country and exhibited by a -Mr Dyer, in partnership -with Mr Kershaw, and alter a dispute between the owners, Mr. Dyer sent the 'giant" to London without Mr Kershaw's knowledge. Mr Kershaw, hearing of this, secured the injunction from a judge in the old Court of Chancery. Ail the parties to the legal proceedings. as well as 111" .judge, have since passed away, and the I'onrl in which the injunction wa- granted has ceaseu to exist. The railway eompauv have year by year charged in th. ir ; .books so much per annum for "storage of Irish giant,'' the bill now standing i at £2OO. which, of course, will have to be paid before the parcel is handed over. But. seemingly, nobody wants it

Both the imitation ami tlio genuine' diamond at lirst appear mucli alike, vol in composition and utility the.y are wholly unlike. So it is willi many ereani separators at present on the market, .At first <uht they may bear a. resemblance to the "Alfa-Laval." 11 io world'* standard machine. Imp when judged by the work tliev do they arc no more like the "Alfa-Laval'' than the piece of U like the true diamond. 1 Voti are not blind to the prolils dne {n clean skimming. economy in operation, and durability. Ave y-vu already wealthy that the waste of power, erojni., oil, time, and repair expense mean noilun? to you? Write us to-day for Catalogue "T" and prices. Delay moans go much money lost. Sole New Zealand OL'eiits. Mason. Struthers and Co., Ltd.. Main-street. Pulmeiston North. Y.. (Jriffiths mid Co., New Plymouth, lo'.-al YOU CAN" GET IT CHEAPER AT THE bed post.

There was u good attendance at St. Joseph's euchre. party last night. AftjiM keen competition the prizes were won as fallows:—Ladies: First (silver shoeborn), Miss Barriball; second (pair fancy va.ses), Miss Boulton. Gentlemen: First (silver matchbox), Mr. Harvey; second (pair isilve r sleeve-links), Mr. Woods. Alter supper had been Imnd'rd J round, dancing was indulged in and ' enjoyed till itho small ihourse-'Of the morning. T.lic music was played by Mrs. ; George. Mr. Clarke acted as M.C. Writing of the Bulgarian army system, Mr. Foster Fraser says: "Conscription prevails. It embraces everybody, Jivijtt those who for special reasons escajro full conscription service must do duty in the reserve for three months in each of two years, and then must pass into the active army reserve for nine years. In peace time a recruit enters the army when he is twenty years of age; in war time lie starts bis lighting at eighteen. Not till he is fortylive years of age does a Bulgarian c? cape from liability to serve. Even foreigners after three years' residence must serve, unless they have a special eertijicate of exemption, if Moslems pay .C2O they can claim exemption; but as the Moslems remaining in Bulgaria are floor, very few escape. Bulgars alllicted with infirmities which prevent them entering the service must t l»ay a special tax. The army lays its grip on Bulgaria. The peace strength is ' some 3000 ollicers and 50,000 men, IiUOOO r horses and oxen, and 250 guns horsed i out of 500. The war strength is about 0000 ollicers, 300,01111 men, 45,000 horses,

ami 2300 oxen. Tlu» army stands l"i Bulgarian imlopciKlfUL'o. The youiij Bulgarian straightens himself, drops hi: slouch, ami walks with a proud glint »> his cyi' wlieii his country calls upon him Military service i >s popular."

ill'. K. Marncs lias just returned to | llawcra aften an absence of two years, most of liis time liaviiiii- been spent on a visit to England, lie says the pnsent position and the outlook for the artisans and the country laborers is anything but satisfactory, and that ho was particularly struck with the duliicss and decadence of rural life in so far as the wurkerH are concerned. Even in beautiful counties such as Worcestershire and Gloucestershire this is marked, and the population of the villages is decreasing instead of advancing, .apparently owing to the lack of scope for industrial or agricultural energy. As an instance .Mr. Marncs gives the case of a village of which he saw a good 1 deal. I'lic, land around is good, "better, he said, "yes, better than anything we Ivave here, and yet in that village, in the centre of n country of grass and ■beautiful streams, 1 saw New Zealand cheese being sold." Remarkably, the cheese came from Tariki, Okaiawa, and other places -with which Mr. Marius was familiar, and he was able to'show the interested grocer photographs of the places where the cheese was made. Asked why Jie did not buy English cheese, the tradesman very frankly said, "Well, if I did I should Jiot get two alike. But here in this little lot I have so many cheeses, and I can relv on them being practically all alike, of the same good even quality." Mr. Marnes appreciated the compliment to the cheeseiuaking industry of New Zealand, but nevertheless he says the other side t'o tlie question of importation of such a food'stuff is a paralysed state of British agricultural industry, and to a colonial returning to the Motherland 1 J this is a depressing fact.—Star.